The complex that includes Angkor Wat, a temple built by the long-gone Khmer empire in Cambodia, is larger than scientists suspected.Flickr: cornstaruk
The famous temple complex of Angkor Wat, which draws so many tourists to Cambodia, is but one...
Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky, charged with fraud in Russia earlier this week, is not allowed to leave Cambodia before his trial in the southeastern Asian state is over, his lawyer said on Saturday.
Credit: Sky NewsAlmost 300 striking garment factory workers in Cambodia were fired on June 6 and 7, Reuters reports. The workers, who make products for Nike, have been striking for higher pay. A union working with the strikers said 288 had been...
On Friday, Cambodia’s parliament will debate a controversial draft law that will punish people who seek to downplay the crimes of the Khmer Rouge era. The government said the law is necessary; critics disagree and said it is politically...
I finished the book and opened my eyes to see I was still in my cinderblock dorm room. Only moments before had I been raiding brothels in Cambodia, operating on fistulas in Ethiopia and teaching girls in rural India how to read. Half the Sky:...
The Cambodian authorities must release housing rights activist and prisoner of conscience Yorm Bopha who was jailed after an unfair trial.
June 3, 2013
International
The Cambodian authorities must release housing...
Mr. Oliver covered major world events, like the conflicts in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, the Middle East peace talks in 1977 and the Civil War in El Salvador, for NBC News for more than 25 years.
Earlier this month two Cambodian garment workers died and more than 30 were injured when sections of two factories collapsed. The accidents came amid increased scrutiny of the global garment industry following the building collapse in Bangladesh...
Credit: Sky News At least 23 workers were injured on Tuesday at a protest at a factory in Cambodia calling for higher wages when police with stun batons moved in to break it up, according to Sky News. A trade union representative said that a woman...
A United Nations independent expert today called on the Cambodian Government to keep moving forward with judiciary, electoral, economic and land reforms, stressing his readiness to assist the country with remaining challenges to implement his...
Some students of Mekong University in Cambodia held a protest after U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi delivered a lecture on law of foreign investment. The protesters accused the UN envoy of distorting the human rights situation in Cambodia which...
A gold mine shaft has collapsed in the Preah Vihear province of Cambodia, trapping at least seven miners, officials said Monday.
Police said late Monday they are trying to rescue the trapped miners, near Romtum village, Rovieng district, but the...
Another in a continuing series of "The High Cost of Low Wages":
Part of a shoe factory has collapsed in Cambodia, leaving at least two people dead, officials say.
The concrete roof at the factory in Kampong Speu province, west of Phnom Penh, crashed...
[StyleBlazer.com] Two Killed In Another Factory Collapse, This Time In Cambodia
When news like this comes in steady streams, you have to wonder if this it’s a random sequence of events or a hidden issue that’s just now being reported on...
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Five-months pregnant, Im Chanthy was told that her husband's body had been found in the trunk of his car, brutally hacked to death for reporting on illegal logging and land concessions in Cambodia.Many of these concessions,...
The prestigious New York Museum of Metropolitan of Art made headlines earlier this month when museum officials announced plans to return two large statues to Cambodia, after concurring with evidence provided by Cambodian officials that the artifacts...
From Chris Acree:
I’m planning a trip which will take me through Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. I recently began selecting a few books about each country to read to cover the history, culture, or other interesting aspects of the area. In...
